Last updated: 22 Jul 2008

SEAH, Khoon Guan Winston (Dr.Eng.)

Networking Protocols Department
Institute for Infocomm Research (Member of A*STAR)
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 119613.

Contact: +65 6874 2012 (Tel)
                +65 6778 6195 (Fax)

winston@i2r.a-star.edu.sg


Current Positions
Education
Scholarships & Awards
Research (Research topics for new graduate students can be found here.)
Selected Publications
Keynotes, Invited Presentations, Tutorials & Seminars
Technical, Professional & Standardization Activities
Key Senior/Technical Management Roles
Academic Activities & Manpower Training
Research Grants
Patents


ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for papers:

  • [NEW!]IEEE International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUnderNet), to be held in conjunction with AINA2009, 26-29 May 2009, Bradford, UK.[submission deadline: October 15, 2008]
  • The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2009), Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009. [submission deadline: September 15, 2008]
  • [NEW!]International Workshop on Theory, Applications and Deployment issues in Ad hoc, Sensor and Actuator networks (TADASA-2009), to be held in conjunction with CISIS-2009, March 16~19, 2009, Fukuoka, Japan. [submission deadline: September 30, 2008]

CURRENT POSITIONS

  1. Senior Scientist, Networking Protocols Department, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)
  2. Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
  3. Faculty member, NUS Graduate School for Integrative Science and Engineering (NGS), National University of Singapore (NUS)
  4. Founding and Steering Committee Member, Asia-Pacific IPv6 Task Force
  5. Associate, Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network (SingAREN)
  6. Senior Member, IEEE
  7. Professional Member, ACM; Chairman, ACM Singapore Chapter
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EDUCATION
  • Dr.Eng. in Applied Systems Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 1997.
  • M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 1993.
  • B.Sc. in Computer and Information Sciences, National University of Singapore, 1987.

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SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
  • Highly Commended Paper Award, IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2008), March 25-28, 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan.
  • Visiting research professor under 21st Century Center of Excellence Program of Japan, March 16-29, 2003, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Monbusho Postgraduate Scholarship awarded by the Government of Japan, 1992-1995.
  • Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Foundation for C&C Promotion (NEC funded), 1996.
  • Postgraduate Research Scholarship, International Communication Foundation (KDD funded), 1996.

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RESEARCH
  1. Wireless sensor networks for disaster detection/monitoring/alert and structural health monitoring of mission critical infrastructures.
  2. Oceanographic wireless ad hoc and sensor networks for realtime monitoring and surveillance -- this research involves the design of a novel underwater network architecture based on a multipath virtual sink approach and the supporting protocol suite. Our multi-disciplinary approach combines wireless communications and robotics, exploiting the controlled mobility of underwater autonomous vehicle teams to enhance the network connectivity in the harsh underwater environment, and thus provide quality of service assurances to the network services and applications.
  3. Mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) with emphasis on quality of service (QoS) support and routing protocols, focusing on mobility-enhanced lightweight protocols and algorithms for command, control and communication (C3) and sensing applications in terrestrial and oceanographic networks; work on QoS started in 1998 and resulted in the design of one of the first QoS models for mobile ad-hoc networks (see Selected Publications.) Gave invited keynote presentation on “Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks – Myth or Reality?” in the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC2004), Dec 8-10, 2004, Swiss-Grand Resort and Spa, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia. Principal investigator of the TARANTULAS project (The All-terrain Advanced Network of Ubiquitous Mobile Asynchronous Systems) which aims to design and develop a mobile ad hoc networks routing protocol which would allow a group of autonomously roving robots to communicate with one another, discover and coordinate their functions amongst themselves, via a common wireless medium, in order to achieve a single common objective by working as a team with minimal human input.involves the design of a novel network architecture.
    1. Research topics for new graduate students can be found here. Please contact me directly via email to discuss.
    2. [NEW!]Internship opportunities are available in the areas of mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks and underwater networks; duration is 3-6 months for graduate students pursuing postgraduate degrees in overseas universities (for undergraduate students, only Singaporeans are eligible.)  Please send me an email with your brief resume, clearly indicating your university/dept, year of study, nationality, and research interests.
  4. Past research interests include next generation Internet protocols with emphasis on mobility, wireless connectivity, quality of service, security, and authentication, authorization and accounting. Some notable contributions include the RSVP-Mobile IPv6 Interworking scheme that was proposed to the IETF and received strong support from industry.
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (full list >150 publications; underwater networks papers)
  1. S. K. Ng and Winston K. G. Seah, 'Game-Theoretic Model for Collaborative Protocols in Selfish, Tariff-Free, Multihop Wireless Networks', Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Apr 13-16, 2008, Pheonix, Arizona, USA. (Acceptance rate (AR): <21%)
  2. HP Tan, A Gabor, Winston K. G. Seah and Pius WQ Lee, ‘Performance Analysis of Data Delivery Schemes for a Multi-sink Wireless Sensor Network (Highly Commended Paper Award), Proceedings of the IEEE 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2008), March 25-28, 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan. (AR: 145/469 < 31%).
  3. Mehdi Mani, Winston K.G. Seah and Noël Crespi, ‘Super Nodes Positioning for P2P IP Telephony over Wireless Ad-hoc Networks’, (invited paper), Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2007), Dec 12-14, 2007, Oulu, Finland.
  4. Winston K. G. Seah and G. H. Tan, 'Wireless Multihop Networks in Mission Critical Realtime Monitoring and Alerts for Construction Sites', Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, Nov 14-16, 2007, Vancouver, Canada.
  5. Z. A. Eu and Winston K. G. Seah, ‘Impact of Transmission Power and Routing Algorithms in Designing Robust Wireless Sensor Networks', Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'07), Sep 3-7, 2007, Athens, Greece.
  6. Vijay R. Chandrasekhar, Winston K. G. Seah, Yoo Sang Choo and How Voon Ee, ‘Localization in Underwater Sensor Networks – Survey and Challenges’, Proceedings of the First ACM International Workshop on UnderWater Networks (WUWNet), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006 Sep. 25, 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA. [ >15 citations, as of Jun 2008.]
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  7. Lee, H.Y., Winston K. G. Seah and P. Sun, 'Energy Implications of Clustering in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks', Proceedings of the 17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'06), September 11-14, 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
  8. Xue, M. Q.,  I. I. Er and Winston K. G. Seah, ‘Analysis of Clustering and Routing Overhead for Clustered Mobile Ad Hoc Networks’, Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS2006), July 4-7, 2006, Lisboa, Portugal. (AR: <14%) [original submitted version]
  9. Liu, C and Winston KG Seah, ‘Skewed Map Forwarding for Location-based Multipath Routing in Ad Hoc Networks’, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (Med-Hoc-Net 2006), Lipari, Sicily (Italy), June 14-17, 2006.
  10. Winston K. G. Seah and H. P. Tan, ‘Multipath Virtual Sink Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks in Harsh Environments’ (invited paper), Proceedings of the First International Conference on Integrated Internet, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (InterSense 2006), May 29-31, 2006, Nice, France.
  11. Winston K. G. Seah and H. X. Tan, ‘Multipath Virtual Sink Architecture for Underwater Sensor Networks’, Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS2006 Asia Pacific Conference, May 16-19, 2006, Singapore.
  12. Er, I. I. and Winston K. G. Seah, 'Clustering Overhead and Convergence Time Analysis of the Mobility-based Multi-Hop Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks', accepted by Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Elsevier, Dec 2005; earlier version appeared in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Performance Modelling in Wired, Wireless, Mobile Networking and Computing (PMW2MNC05) (AR: 29%)
  13. Winston K. G. Seah, L. Y. Yeo, Z. A. Eu,  H. X. Tan and K. S. Tan, 'Performance Modeling of MANETs Interconnectivity’, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN), Springer Science, Vol 13, No 2, pp. 115-126, 2006. [DOI: 10.1007/s10776-006-0029-y]
  14. Winston K. G. Seah, H. X. Tan, Z. Liu and Marcelo H. Ang Jr, 'Multiple-UUV Approach for Enhancing Connectivity in Underwater Ad-hoc Sensor Networks', Proceedings of the MTS/IEEE OCEANS 2005 Conference, Sep 19-23, 2005, Washington DC, USA. [Presentation]
  15. Valera, A. C., Winston K. G. Seah and S. V. Rao, ‘Improving Protocol Robustness in Ad hoc Networks Through Cooperative Packet Caching and Shortest Multipath Routing’, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol 4, No 5, pp. 443-457, Sep/Oct 2005. [Earlier version: ‘Cooperative Packet Caching and Shortest Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad hoc Networks’, Proceedings of 22nd Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2003), Mar 30-Apr 3, 2003. (AR<20%), >70 citations, as of Jun 2008.]
  16. Liu, Y. Z. and Winston K. G. Seah, ‘A Priority-based Multi-path Routing Protocol for Sensor Networks’, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN), Springer Science, Vol 12, No 1, pp. 23-33, Jan 2005. [Earlier version appeared in the Proceedings of 15th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2004), Sept 5-8, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.]
  17. Zhang, J. X. and Winston K. G. Seah, ‘Topology-based capacity analysis for ad hoc networks with end-to-end delay constraints’, Proceedings of the IEEE 6th CAS Symposium on Emerging Technologies: Frontiers of Mobile and Wireless Communication, May 31 - June 2, 2004, Shanghai, China.
  18. Liu, Z., Marcelo H. Ang Jr and Winston K. G. Seah, A Searching and Tracking Framework for Multi-Robot Observation of Multiple Moving Targets. International Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence & Intelligent Informatics (JACI3), Vol 8 No 1, 2004.
  19. Er, I. I. and Winston K. G. Seah, ‘Mobility-based d-Hop Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks’, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, March 21-25, 2004, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  20. Wu, W. and Winston K. G. Seah, ‘Evaluation of End-to-end QoS Support for Mobile Hosts in IPv6 with IEEE802.11e’, Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC2003 Fall), Oct 6-9, 2003. (In IP Mobility Symposium; AR: 16.5%.)
  21. Yang, L. Q., Winston K. G. Seah and Qinghe Yin, ‘Improving Fairness among TCP Flows crossing Wireless Ad Hoc and Wired Networks’, Proceedings of 4th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2003), Jun 1-3, 2003. (AR: 15%) [>30 citations, as of Jun 2008.]
  22. Xiao, H., Winston K. G. Seah, A. Lo and K. C. Chua, 'A Flexible Quality of Service Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks'. Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2000-Spring), 15-18 May 2000, Tokyo, Japan. [ >160 citations, as of Jun 2008.]

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KEYNOTES, INVITED PRESENTATIONS, TUTORIALS & SEMINARS
  1. 'Designing Robust Wireless Sensor Networks for Urban Development', International Workshop on Urban Operations Research, Dec 22-23, 2007, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
  2. ‘Current networking and routing protocols are shackles’, Cutting Edge Communication Architecture Strategy Forum, April 13, 2007, Future Systems Directorate, Ministry of Defence, Singapore.
  3. 'Mobile Sensor-Actuator Networks for Natural Disaster Warning and Recovery', Euro-SouthEastAsia ICT Forum (EUSEA2006), Jun 19-23, 2006, Singapore.
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  4. 'Humans speak IPv4, Machines speak IPv6’, Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT) Workshop on IPv6, Feb 27-Mar 1, 2006, Langkawi, Penang, Malaysia.
  5. 'The All-Terrain Advanced Network of Ubiquitous Mobile Asynchronous Systems',Workshop on ICT for Natural Disasters in conjunction with EuroThailand2005, Jun 6-7, 2005, Bangkok,Thailand.
  6. ‘Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks – Myth or Reality?’, Keynote presentation, Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC2004), Dec 8-10, 2004, Swiss-Grand Resort and Spa, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia.
  7. ‘IPv6 – THE Internet Protocol’, Invited Talk, Singapore Industrial Automation Association (SIAA), Industrial Infocomm Technology (I2T) Business Get Together, 22 July, 2004.
  8. ‘Status of IPv6 in Singapore’, IPv6 Summer Retreat 2003, 23 Aug 2003, Lotte Hotel Seoul-Jamsil, Seoul, Korea.
  9. ‘Voice Video with QoS over IPv6’, Global IPv6 Summit in Asia-Pacific (held in conjunction with APRICOT 2003), 24-26 Feb 2003, Taipei, Taiwan.
  10. ‘Mobile Ad Hoc Networking: Issues and New Challenges”, half-day tutorial in Personal Wireless Communications (PWC2002), 23-25 October 2002, Grand Hyatt, Singapore.
  11. ‘IPv6: The new Internet tidal wave’, Global IP Carriers Asia 2002, 23-24 October 2002, Sheraton HK & Towers, Hong Kong.
  12. ‘IPv6 – Next Generation Internet Protocol’, IP-VPN 2002, 12-13 August 2002, The Oriental, Singapore.
  13. ‘IPv6 – This Generation Internet Protocol’, SingAREN Seminar, August 2002, Singapore.

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TECHNICAL, PROFESSIONAL & STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES
  1. Technical Program Vice-Chair, Mobile Networks and Applications Track, AINA2009, May 25-29, 2009, Bradford, UK.
  2. Co-Chair, International Workshop on Theory, Applications and Deployment issues in Ad hoc, Sensor and Actuator networks (TADASA-2009), to be held in conjunction with International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software-Intensive Systems (CISIS-2009), March 16~19, 2009, Fukuoka, Japan.
  3. Technical Programme Committee Chair, Mobility Conference, Sep 10-12, 2008, Ilan, Taiwan. [Mobility Conference 2008 is organized by ACM Singapore Chapter and proceedings will be published by ACM Digital Library. (Acceptance ratio for Mobility Conference 2007 is 33%.)]
  4. Vice-chair, 3rd Asia-Pacific Symposium on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA2008), Jul 30-Aug 2, 2008, Taipei, Taiwan.
  5. Technical Program Vice-Chair, Communication Technology and Protocols Track, AINA2008, Mar 25-28, 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan.
  6. Technical Programme Committee Chair, ACM Mobility Conference 2007, Sep 12-14, 2007, Singapore.
  7. Special Editorial Team, IEE Proceedings - Communication, Special Issue on Wireless Mobile Networks: Cross-Layer  Communications, 2006/2007.
  8. Asia-Pacific IPv6 Task Force (Founding and Steering Committee member), IPv6 Forum, IETF, APAN, and iDA Infocomm Technology Roadmap.
  9. Industrial Infocomm Technology (I2T) IPv6 Interest Group Leader, Singapore Industrial Automation Association (SIAA).
  10. Steering and Organizing Committee Member, IEE Mobility Conference 2006, Oct 25-27, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand; Mobility Conference 2005, Nov 15-17, 2005, Guangzhou, China.
  11. Session Chair and Organizing Committee Member, Regional Industrial Neworking Conference (RINC), Oct 13-14, 2005, Singapore.
  12. Chairman, Technical Program Committee, EuroSingapore2005, Jan 27-28, 2005, The Regent, Singapore.
  13. Telecommunications Standards Technical Committee (TSTC), Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA), 2005.8.1-2008.7.31 (3-year term) and 2003.1.1-2004.12.31.
  14. Organizing Committee Member, Singapore International Conference on Networks (SICON), Sept 5-6, 1991.
  15. Technical Program Committee Member
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009) - Communications Software and Services Symposium, Jun 14-18, 2009, Dresden, Germany.
    • 3rd International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2009), Jun 4-6, 2009, Qingdao, China.
    • 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2008), Dec 17-20, 2008, Bangalore, India.
    • 11th IEEE International Conference on Communications Systems (ICCS 2008), Nov 19-21, 2008, Guangzhou, China.
    • IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2008), Oct 12-15, 2008, Singapore.
    • 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2008), Oct 12-14, 2008, Avignon, France.
    • 2nd International Workshop on Under Water Sensors and Systems (UNWAT 2008), August 25-31, 2008, Cap Esterel, France.
    • 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2008), Wireless Platform: Applications and Testbeds Track, Aug 4-7, 2008, Virgin Islands, USA.
    • IADIS International Conference Wireless Applications and Computing (WAC2008), July 22-27, 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    • 4th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU2008), June 11-13, 2008, Tokyo, Japan.
    • 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, June 23-25, 2008, Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway.
    • 3rd International Workshop on Performance Analysis and Enhancement of Wireless Networks (PAEWN’08), to be held in conjunction with AINA2008, Mar 25-28, 2008, GinoWan, Okinawa, Japan.
    • 2nd International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2008), Mar 4-7, 2008, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
    • 6th International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS2007), Dec 10-13, 2007, Singapore.
    • 15th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON2007), Nov 19-21, 2007, Adelaide, Australia.
    • 2nd ACM International Workshop on UnderWater NETworks (WUWNet'07), Sep 14, 2007, held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom/MobiHoc, Montreal, Canada.
    • 2nd Asia-Pacific Symposium on Queueing Theory and Network Applications (QTNA2007), Aug 1-4, 2007, Kobe, Japan.
    • International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE'07), Apr 26-28, 2007, Seoul, Korea.
    • International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2007), Apr 10-13, 2007, Vienna, Austria.
    • 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'06), Dec 13-15, 2006, Hong Kong, China.
    • 10th International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS2006), Oct 30 - Nov 2, 2006, Singapore.
    • 3rd International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networks (ICMU2006), Oct  11-13, 2006, London, UK.
    • International Conference on Networks (ICON2006), Sep 13-15, 2006, Singapore.
    • 2nd International Workshop on Performance Modelling and Analysis of Communication in Wired and Wireless Networks (PMAC-2WN'06) held in conjunction with 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'2006), Jul 12-15, 2006, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
    • 1st International Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Wireless and Mobile Networks (PEWMN'06)
    • Workshop on Pervasive Computing and Ad Hoc Communications (PCAC’06) held in conjunction with IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2006), Apr 18-20, 2006, Vienna, Austria.
    • International Conference on Information Network (ICOIN2006),  Jan 16-19, 2006, Sendai, Japan.
    • 1st International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN'05), Dec 13-15, 2005, Wuhan, China.
    • 4th IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (CSN2005), September 12-14, 2005, Benidorm, Spain.
    • 2nd International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU2005), April 13-15, 2005, Osaka, Japan.
    • International Conference on Information Network (ICOIN2005), Jan 31-Feb 2, 2005, Jeju, Korea.
    • International Conference on Networks (ICON2004), Nov 16-19, 2004, Singapore.
    • 9th International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS2004), Sept 5-8, 2004, Singapore.
    • Mobility Conference 2004, Aug 2-4, 2004, Singapore.

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